Robert Seeberger wrote:
>
> How the "Great Satan" Became Just Great
>
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021111-386942,00.html
>
> One of the hottest shops in Tehran these days sits on a treelined street in
> the fashionable district of Elahieh. Its name is too risque, by local
> standards, to be displayed on the storefront. Instead, gilt letters spell it
> out on a dusky rose wall inside: Victoria's Secret. Iranian women flock here
> to rapturously fawn over delicate silk negligees, lace underwear and other
> fripperies that are available nowhere else in the Islamic Republic. While
> the franchise is fake, the goods are authentic. So the shop offers Iranian
> women a twofold illicitness: sexy lingerie that flagrantly violates Islamic
> notions of modesty, plus a made in the u.s.a. label. "What kind of underwear
> this is I don't know," says a bemused waiter at the coffee shop next door,
> as he watches young women stream past.
Gee, most of *my* stuff from VS doesn't have a "Made in the USA" label.
Frex, today I'm wearing "Made in China" and "Made in Portugal". (I also
have "Made in Maldives" and "Made in Israel", to name a couple of other
places my VS stuff was manufactured.)
But sexy underwear under more conservative clothing is *fun*. You know
it's there, and your husband might find out about it later, but other
than that, it's your secret. (Unless you blab to a mailing list that
you're wearing it or something....)
Julia
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